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| Born | 15 January |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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Shomi Kaiser is a Bangladeshi actress and political activist. [1] [2] She is currently the Managing Director of Dhansiri Communications Ltd, an advertising and event management company. [3]
Kaiser was born to Shahidullah Kaiser and Panna Kaiser ( née Saifunnahar Chowdhury) on 15 January. [4] [5] Her father was a writer-novelist. Shomi Kaiser was two years old when her father disappeared. His body was never found. Her mother, Panna Kaiser, was a writer and former M.P. [6]
Shomi Kaiser has a younger brother, Amitav Kaiser. [6] Their maternal uncle is former President of Bangladesh A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, whose wife, Maya, is the sister of Panna Kaiser. [7]
Shomi Kaiser received her first break In 1989, when director Atiqul Haque Chowdhury was looking for a young actress who could speak Noakhali dialect for his play Keba Apon Keba Por. [8] Next she worked on the three episode play Joto Durey Jai, based on a novel by Imdadul Haque Milon, directed by Abdullah al Mamun. [8] She worked for Dhaka Theatre for 12 years. [9] She appeared in Haat Hodai (with Shahiduzzaman Selim). She appeared in such films as Hason Raja (2002) and Lalon (2004). She was featured in Ekti Nadir Naam (2002), based on the biography of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. [8] She later emerged as a producer. She has owned Dhansiri Productions since 1997, [9] which produced Mukti and Antorey Nirantor. [8] In November 2013, her firm, Dhanshiri Communication Limited, got license for a private radio channel named Radio Active. [10]
In 2017, Kaiser was elected as one of the directors of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). In 2018, she was elected as the president of e-Commerce Association (e-CAB). [11] She was nominated in the election as a representative of the Sammilita Ganotantrik Parishad panel. [12]
In November 2018, Kaiser applied for nomination for the Feni-3 constituency on behalf of Bangladesh Awami League party. [13]
Kaiser has been married three times. Her first husband was Indian-Bengali film director Riingo Banerjee, whom she married in 1999 and divorced two years later. [14] [15] Her second husband, Mohammad A. Arafat, is a private university faculty member, whom she married in 2008 and divorced in 2015. [14] [15] In 2020, she married her third husband, Reza Amin, the chief executive officer of Euro-Vigil Private Limited. [3] [15] [16]
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